This is the 2009 chart.

Thanks Barry.

No problem

Nice to see Saint-Saens' Symphony no.3 go up in the chart this year.

Yes indeed. It's a lovely Symphony.

Zadok The Priest climbed 236 places!!

Eroica climbed 9 places.

I hadn't noticed that! Has it been in a film or something this year?

Might be something to do with the Handel anniversary this year rekindling interest in his works.

I was trying to think of why it might be. Undoubtedly a film. The only one I can think of at the moment is The Young Victoria.

Possibly Barry, but I *think* he was also the highest faller. Don't take my word for that though!

It was 42 the year before last, so maybe everyone just hated Handel last year

EDIT: DC, I think Handel was last year's biggest faller, obviously because he managed to drop 250 places in one go!

I'm sure it's used in a TV commercial too. Can't think which one though...

I'll bow out now.

None of my favourites seem to have done very well.

Zadok the Priest is in The Young Victoria yep, I remember cause the uni choir was singing it when I saw the film, and I was entirely too excited to hear it. Especially since common sense dictates that of course we'd hear it at the coronation.

Oh dear

What were you hoping to see high up in the chart Flossie?

Sibelius symphonies 2, 4 and 7, Tapiola and violin concerto.
Walton violin and viola concertos.
Mendlessohn violin concerto.
Bruch violin concerto.
Britten cello symphony.
Delius violin sonatas.
Tchaikovsky symphony 6.
Grieg Peer Gynt.
Vaughan Williams pastoral, antarctic and sea symphonies, English folk suite.
Dvorak Slavonic danses and violin concerto.
Schumann violin and cello concertos.
Stravinsky symphony of psalms, symphony in C, rite of spring
Mussorgsky pictures at an exhibition
York Bowen Flute sonata
Berkley Sonatina (flute)

I could probably add a lot more to this list if I tried...

The Bruch Violin concerto came 7th. And Mendelssohn was thirty-somethingth, which is higher than the moonlight sonata, so given this is classic fm we're talking about that's pretty good!

The Rite of Spring was on the list, which was more than I was expecting!

Agree



You've got to love Peer Gynt. Wonderful tunes!



Would definitely be in my top 10 as well.



Another piece with good tunes in it



Yes! York Bowen was also not at all a bad writer for clari...

If could I could choose any piece I would rather not hear, it would be the Lark !! Closely followed by The Four Seasons and Night on a Bare Mountain

Why has one of my best friends texted me to tell me that I should enter the TV competition to become the next member of the Loose Women team?

Anyone got a good cure for neck ache? I think I slept awkwardly last night...

As I'm in my early-mid 20s I find that everyone around me is getting engaged or married.

I'd quite like to get engaged. Hmmpphf.

Don't worry, my daughter's 33 and single, with with an M.Sc, a rewarding job and many outside activities (some musical). All her friends got engaged , then married , and have up to 3 kids now ! She has several Godchildren !

I think it just bothers me because I've been with my boyfriend for 6 years As for kids... no

Then it's time he got down on one knee !

That's what I'm saying

YOu can't go on that tripe Ratty. You are far to clever for that.

So obviously Ratty's friend was paying her a huge compliment, because only Ratty can raise the tone of our daytime television to the sort of level where it should be

You haven't seen Ratty going after legs like I have...

I went into a shoe shop today. As I paid for my shoes, a man with his young son was at the counter. The assistant asked if she could help...he said he wanted a pair of size 8's for his son.

"In what?" Says the assistant.

"Shoes" replied the dad!

*I laughed but no-one else did... *

I can see that your stay at the Rattery did you no good at all! Tut tut!

"How do they take those tablets then?"

"They swallow them."

We were at a zoo once, looking at wallabies.. Someone turned up by the enclosure and said "Look at the rabbits!"

That's a nice compliment but I suspect that I really wouldn't.

I have lots to do but don't really want to do any of it.

Join the club!

Me too, hence why I'm on the forum rather than sending work related e-mails. It's Friday afternoon, and I've been very confused all week as to the day of the week because of having had Easter Monday off!

I want to go home and watch the last two episodes of my Spooks boxset (series 6).

I have had an amusing quote in my head all day: "I quite fancy Hufflepuff: I've always thought they just sit around all day making things with safety scissors and glitter". (Quote by Andrea Riseborough as Annie in the Being Human pilot episode, in response to the question what house would you be in if you went to Hogwarts) and keep giggling at random intervals as a result.

And me! Although I'm sort of making a presentation.

Well I should be choosing my third year modules, thinking about what to do for my dissertation, packing, doing an online shop so when I go back to university I'll have some food, writing a list of what i want to buy so I don't just splurge on nice food........

Have you not already started your dissertation, Nicki? Our lot start theirs in the 2nd year social research module and so they've already had to hand in their project proposals and literature reviews last term?

That's early - I didn't start my dissertation until the 2nd semester in 3rd year!

That's very late.

I thought you might say that

We get a designated 9 weeks to do lab work in the 2nd semester and then write it up to hand in in May (I think). Not sure what it's like for literature projects

Just back from hols and catching up...

my member number is 413 ...

even I can do that one !

Hmm. Our lot are expected to do 3 months of fieldwork between the end on the 2nd year exams and the start of the 3rd year, and this needs to be organised well in advance (especially as quite a few of the students do their fieldwork overseas). Dissertations are submitted in early March in the 3rd year - so they have just over a year to do them (which is why the students who start their dissertations with a week to go get absolutely no sympathy from staff...).

There was no going overseas in neuroscience

I thought I'd make my 15,000th post really, really interesting.

No, I have to definitely know by May 15th and start research in the summer. Deadline for History dissertations is before Easter in third year.

Why do some people like garden gnomes?

Heaven only knows

Exposure to Disney's Snow White as a child. Gnomes are so like the dwarves in that that they somehow conjure up those childhood feelings of being loved and secure in the best of all possible worlds.

That's my theory, anyway!

I just left my music on shuffle and found my friend's GCSE composition! Nostalgia time!